Lesser Antilles
Guadeloupe
Arrondissement de Pointe-à-Pitre

Pointe-à-Pitre

Pointe-à-Pitre is the second most populous commune of . Guadeloupe is an overseas region and department of located in the , of which it is a sous-préfecture, being the seat of the arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre.
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  • Type: City with 14,500 residents
  • Description: French commune in Guadeloupe
  • Also known as: “La Pointe”, “La Pointe à Pitre”, “Lapwent”, “Pap”, “Pointe à Pitre”, “Port-la-Liberté”, and “Pwentapit”
  • Postal codes: 97110 and 97110

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hôtel de ville de Pointe-à-Pitre and Musée Saint-John Perse.

Town hall
Photo: KoS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town hall.

Museum
Photo: Aristoi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum.

Government office
Photo: Lordphoenix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a government office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Les Abymes.

Town
Photo: LPLT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the most populous commune in the overseas region and department of , in the . It is located on the west side of the island of , and is part of the largest metropolitan area of Guadeloupe, which also covers Pointe-à-Pitre.

Pointe-à-Pitre

Latitude
16.2409° or 16° 14′ 27″ north
Longitude
-61.5334° or 61° 32′ 0″ west
Population
14,500
IATA airport code
PTP
United Nations Location Codes
GP PAP and GP PTP
Open location code
778W6FR8+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246825950
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3578599
Wiki­data ID
Q335322
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pointe-à-Pitre” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Arabic: “بوانت-آه-بيتر”
  • Aragonese: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Armenian: “Պուանտ ա Պիտր”
  • Arpitan: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Asturian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Bambara: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Basque: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Bavarian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Belarusian: “Пуант-а-Пітар”
  • Belarusian: “Пуэнт-а-Пітар”
  • Belarusian: “Пуэнт-а-Пітр”
  • Breton: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Buginese: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Bulgarian: “Поант а Питр”
  • Cajun French: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Catalan: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Cebuano: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Chechen: “Пуэнт-а-ПитгӀ”
  • Chinese: “皮特尔角城”
  • Chinese: “皮特爾角城”
  • Corsican: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Croatian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Czech: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Danish: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Dutch: “Pointe-a-Pitre”
  • Dutch: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوانت آه بيتر”
  • Esperanto: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Estonian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Faroese: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Finnish: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • French: “La Pointe”
  • French: “Pointe à Pitre”
  • French: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Friulian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Galician: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Georgian: “პუანტ-ა-პიტრი”
  • German: “Lapwent”
  • German: “Pointe a Pitre”
  • German: “Pointe à Pitre”
  • German: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • German: “Pwentapit”
  • Greek: “Πουάντ-α-Πιτρ”
  • Haitian: “Lapwent”
  • Haitian: “Pwentapit”
  • Hebrew: “פואנט-א-פיטר”
  • Hungarian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Icelandic: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Ido: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Indonesian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Interlingua: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Interlingue: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Irish: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Italian: “Pointe-a-Pitre”
  • Italian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Japanese: “ポワン＝タ＝ピートル”
  • Japanese: “ポワンタピートル”
  • Japanese: “ラポワント”
  • Kabyle: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Kalaallisut: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Kongo: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Korean: “푸앵타피트르”
  • Ladin: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Latin: “Petri rostrum”
  • Latin: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Latvian: “Puentapitra”
  • Ligurian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Limburgan: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Lithuanian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Lithuanian: “Puant a Pitras”
  • Low German: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Macedonian: “Поент а Питр”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Malagasy: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Malay: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Minangkabau: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Narom: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Neapolitan: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Norwegian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Papiamento: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Persian: “پوئنت-ا-پیتر”
  • Picard: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Piemontese: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Polish: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Portuguese: “Pointe-á-Pitre”
  • Portuguese: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Prussian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Romagnol: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Romanian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Romansh: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Russian: “Пуант-а-Питр”
  • Russian: “Пуэнт-а-Питр”
  • Sardinian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Scots: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Serbian: “Poant a Pitr”
  • Serbian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Serbian: “Поант а Питр”
  • Serbian: “Поант-а-Питр”
  • Serbian: “Поент а Питр”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Sicilian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Silesian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Sinhala: “පොයින්ට්-ඒ-පිට්‍රේ, ග්වාඩලූප්”
  • Slovak: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Slovenian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Spanish: “Point a Pitre”
  • Spanish: “Pointe a Pitre”
  • Spanish: “Pointe à Pitre”
  • Spanish: “Pointe a-Pitre”
  • Spanish: “Pointe à-Pitre”
  • Spanish: “Pointe-a-Pitre”
  • Spanish: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Spanish: “Pwentapit”
  • Swahili: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Swedish: “Pointe a Pitre”
  • Swedish: “Pointe à Pitre”
  • Swedish: “Pointe-a-Pitre”
  • Swedish: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Swiss German: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Tatar: “Пуэнт-а-Питр”
  • Thai: “ปวงตาปิทร์”
  • Turkish: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Ukrainian: “Пуент-а-Пітр”
  • Venetian: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Vietnamese: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Vlaams: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Volapük: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Walloon: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Welsh: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Wolof: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • Yue Chinese: “皮特爾角城”
  • Zulu: “Pointe-à-Pitre”
  • “Pointe-à-Pitre”

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